BOMBLive!
John Johnson by Grady Turner
New Museum of Contemporary Art
February 19, 2004
The BOMBLive! Artists & Curators’ Series

“I feel like new media right now is a shadow on the wall of Plato’s Cave”

— Grady Turner

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John S. Johnson is the founder of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City, a not-for-profit institution dedicated to promoting the use of new technologies in the production art. Eyebeam was the first center of its kind in the United States, and has been compared to the Zentrum für Kunst- und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany, as well as the Ars Electronic Center in Linz, Austria and the V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Johnson is also a contributor to the Huffington Post, writing on topics ranging from philanthropy to net neutrality and internet politics.

Grady Turner is art critic and curator based in New York City. His writing has appeared in Art in America, Flash Art, Artnews, the New York Times as well as BOMB. He has curated a number of exhibitions in recent years, including “Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America” and “Manly: Recent Art about Masculinity.” He curated an exhibition at the Museum of Sex entitled, “NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America,” as well as authored a book of the same title.

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